Andy, Check to see if The Freedom Import printer is installed on your machine. Do this by going to Start menu, Settings, Printers. Then arrow around and see ...
Allen Stutts
astutts@...
May 1, 2005 12:42 pm
8255
Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? If you are getting the message that there is no application on your machine that can open those types of files, that is...
Richard Turner
richard@...
May 1, 2005 1:27 pm
8256
Hi. I can't open .pdf documents in Openbook 7.02. I'm not sure if this started when I installed Acrobat 7 or the Openbook 7.02 update, but when I try to open...
Chris Smart
chris_s@...
May 1, 2005 2:06 pm
8257
From the pds file, chosse print and choose freedom import printer. ... From: "Chris Smart" <chris_s@...> To: <openbook-users@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Michael Capelle
michaelcapelle@...
May 1, 2005 2:08 pm
8258
That is if you actually have the Freedom Import printer installed....
Allen Stutts
astutts@...
May 1, 2005 2:30 pm
8259
Hi, I have Open Book 7.02 on my system, and I also have Acrobat Reader 7. The way it's set up, in terms of file associations, and I think this is standard, if...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 1, 2005 3:23 pm
8260
by default, ob will install fs import printer. ... From: "Allen Stutts" <astutts@...> To: <openbook-users@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 01,...
Michael Capelle
michaelcapelle@...
May 1, 2005 4:28 pm
8261
By default and manually, OB 6 and 7 will not install Freedom Import printer on one particular machine that I have. This is confirmed with FS tech support who I...
Allen Stutts
astutts@...
May 1, 2005 4:39 pm
8262
Thanks Mike and Rich. yeah, let's see how long it takes FS to fix this one. Off-topic for here, but JFW 6.01 won't recognize my TripleTalk-PCI synth, even...
Chris Smart
chris_s@...
May 1, 2005 8:05 pm
8263
Daniel, if you want, you can have Openbook perform OCR on the .pdf file, as if it were on paper and you had scanned it....
Chris Smart
chris_s@...
May 1, 2005 8:09 pm
8264
After opening a PDF file with Acrobat, if you go to the print options in the file menu, and from there, choose the freedom import printer as your printer, and...
Larry Higgins
lhiggins@...
May 1, 2005 10:47 pm
8265
What I'd like to know is, what would be the advantage of doing what you describe? Does this presuppose that you don't like reading a .pdf document with...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 1, 2005 11:14 pm
8266
I'm starting to think you're skipping a step in this explanation. You mean, you can completely avoid dealing with Acrobat Reader if you open a .pdf document...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 1, 2005 11:15 pm
8267
I choose to use OpenBook to read a newsletter that I get as a pdf document for two reasons. The first page of this newsletter is an image that Acrobat does not...
Allen Stutts
astutts@...
May 2, 2005 12:07 am
8268
Not to mention files that are not rendered as text, but only graphically. This is when Openbook can be a life saver. Of course providing that the text in the...
Larry Higgins
lhiggins@...
May 2, 2005 2:36 am
8269
Many pdf documents are scanned images of text files, for example, publishers often have someone scan in older journal articles into pdf format. These ...
Robert McCoy
rmccoy@...
May 2, 2005 8:40 am
8270
Hi, I have been told the same by other users, so I asume it is a bug added in 7.02. You can however solve the problem in a different way. Open the pdf file in...
Claus Thøgersen
thoeg@...
May 2, 2005 9:48 am
8271
I see. So Adobe Reader (or Acrobat Reader; I keep forgetting the name of the current reader program) is only useful with a screen reader if the doc has been...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 2, 2005 2:19 pm
8272
I believe that the difficulty exists with a change in access. Previously if you tried to open a pdf with Openbook it would open adobe and import the file...
Robert McCoy
rmccoy@...
May 2, 2005 2:30 pm
8273
Wow, that sounds like a step backward in program design. That's disappointing to hear. Thanks for explaining. ... From: "Robert McCoy"...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 2, 2005 2:38 pm
8274
I open openbook and then hit control O for open file. II find the file and tab over and change the file type to adobe and openbook begins to perform ocr on the...
PSHON.BARRETT@...
May 2, 2005 3:12 pm
8275
I'm not sure I understand this description. Let me see: 1. In this scenario, you've already downloaded the .pdf file and saved it to some folder on your hard...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 2, 2005 4:27 pm
8276
I always change the file type from all files or ark files to adobe although the filename has a pdf extension. At that point openbook begins to recognize the...
PSHON.BARRETT@...
May 2, 2005 5:03 pm
8277
I'm not sure why you put it this way. I'd expect the extension .pdf to appear on the list of file types from which to choose for this search, the same as...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 2, 2005 5:18 pm
8278
You don't type in the file type or extension but you tab over to file types and select adobe. ... From: openbook-users@yahoogroups.com ...
PSHON.BARRETT@...
May 2, 2005 6:26 pm
8279
Oh, okay. I've never yet imported a file into Open Book for this purpose, so I haven't yet noticed "adobe" listed among the file types instead of the .pdf...
Yardbird
yardbird@...
May 2, 2005 6:40 pm
8280
Hi, this is Steve. Sometimes I need to scan the boxes of frozen dinners. Since the temperature of the box is very cold, can this cause any problem to the...
stever2525
stever2525@...
May 5, 2005 9:55 pm
8281
I can not duplicate this problem. I am running OB7.02. Last night I downloaded a 17 page chapter of a scanned pdf book. I opened it in OB and it was...
David Maynard
dmaynard35@...
May 5, 2005 10:50 pm
8282
Hi, You must be using Acrobat 6 or earlier. Acrobat 7 is not recognized by Openbook. Richard on Thursday 5/5/2005 03:49 PM David Maynard said...
Richard Turner
richard@...
May 5, 2005 11:20 pm
8283
Hi there. I had no problems opening a pdf file when I first got openbook 7.2, but all of a sudden, I can't open any pdf of any kind. The other thing that is...
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